Fifteen Athens Vets Return For Grid Year

Athens Texas
August 20 1938
Their hopes based largely on the fact that the new 1938 Hornets gridiron eleven will be built principally with lettermen. Athens football fans are hopeful of a good season in their first schedule of tilts with the formidable East Texas Oil Belt League aggregations.
Training for the new season is scheduled to begin Monday, when Coaches Bobo Nelson and Wallace Johnson will issue uniforms. The list of prospective gridsters includes three veteran ends, three guards, one center, five backs and three tackles all of whom won numerals during the 1937 season. Twenty-five men are expected to report for training.
After Monday the squad is scheduled to drill twice daily.
The veterans for last year's squad who are back for service include Wiley Pennell Jr., quarterback, J. B. Scott, Pershing Huggins and Jake Germany, ends, Leon Christopher, Clinton Chipley and Mule Watts, tackles; Jim T. Meredith, Hugh Hall and H. Self, guards; Billy Simmons, center, and Summer Smith, D. Robertson, Joe Loden and J. R. Dennis, backs.
The Hornets will open the new season with a game here on Sept. 15, the tilt being nonconference affair. Other nonconference games are scheduled with Riverside and Palestine. Conference games are carded with Tyler, Gladewater, Marshall, Texarkana, Kilgore and Longview.

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